WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaicans in several sections of the island are bemoaning the struggle to get water in their communities amid years of unfulfilled promises and a worsening drought affecting the island. In an advertisement in today’s Sunday Gleaner...
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the Jamaica Midwives Association (JMA) signing on to the Government’s public sector compensation review last November, several community midwives are set on a potential collision course with their union over deducted...
WESTERN BUREAU: More than two decades after it shuttered its sugar-production facilities, residents of several communities in St James and Trelawny who depended on the Hampden Estate for their livelihood are concerned about their districts’ mixed...
WESTERN BUREAU: “You cannot go into a public hospital and an incident happens and you are sweeping it under the mat like it is me that do something wrong. They did not treat me good, and I could have died there and then.” That was the disgruntled...
WESTERN BUREAU: With efforts under way to make the local courts more efficient, including resolving a huge case backlog, attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie, KC, believes that financially sanctioning legal players whose actions result in drawn-out...
THE LOOMING weekend threat of Tropical Storm Ian failed to dampen the bright sunshiny spirit at the Chatham Seventh-day Adventist Church in St James as the members honoured local community stalwarts, Glenis Rose and Olga Cousley, on Saturday,...
WESTERN BUREAU: TRANSPORT AND and Mining Minister Audley Shaw has announced that construction of a fire station for the Ian Fleming International Airport in St Mary is slated to begin next month, with a deadline for completion by the end of this...
WESTERN BUREAU: Juliet* looks back ruefully on a time when her trust was betrayed by a supposed friend who absconded on bail after she stood as surety for the woman in a larceny case – something she is determined will never happen again. “Even...
WESTERN BUREAU: Questions abound in Kissy Manning’s mind regarding her brother Celas Clarke’s treatment while he was in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station in Montego Bay, St James, recently. In particular, the injuries she saw...
WESTERN BUREAU: Reverend Hartley Perrin, the chairman of the Westmoreland-based Clifton Boys’ Home, has described as “troubling” the latest news surrounding the arrest of three of the facility’s former employees for allegedly physically abusing...
WESTERN BUREAU: Grief. Anxiety. Stress. Depression. Loneliness. Fear. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused varying degrees of mental and emotional anguish over the past year with disruption to routines and losses – of income, jobs, loved ones –...
WESTERN BUREAU: Carlette DeLeon, managing director of public relations firm Breakthrough Communications, believes that outdoor social activities must reopen fully in order for Jamaica’s entertainment industry – which has taken a hit due to the...
WESTERN BUREAU: “He wasn’t getting good treatment up there at Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) and he could have lived a little longer.” That’s how a distraught Sophia Holness summed up the situation after her spouse, 66-year-old Hopeton Martin,...
